Why don't you learn to butter Professor?!!

Heard this question from a veteran academician who was passionately trying to sell his 'Smart work and Network' thesis to me!

What do we want to be successful in career? Some say quality.. Others Loyalty.. But isn't Loyalty an obligation of a hopeless employee? Butter your boss.. Much imperative to enjoy a peaceful work environment. It is much disheartening to see nepotism  ruling the roost in academics, much prominent than ever before. It encourages mediocre mindset and has cancerous effect across the system resulting in quality loss everywhere. Networking overpowers hard work and sincerity putting students at the receiving end.

Predicaments of a toddling academican

Those curious eyes anchored at me reminds me of the magnitude of responsibility bestowed upon me. Their lives have been battered upon mercilessly by mediocrity and seldom do they realize that. They have been convincingly covered up by a thick blanket of falsehood and barely do they bother to come out of it. Blame it on their demographics, or the congenital 'Can I do?' attitude it comes as the responsibility of a teacher to cushion their fall if not push them to the heights. After all they too have fallen prey to the rusted,flawed and focus less academics system which is brutally bureaucratic and insanely obsessed with norms and regulations forgoing quality and intellect everywhere.